Monthly Archives: September 2009

Stir-on-LAN

I got Wake-on-LAN almost working on my desktop computer. It took some trial and error, but here are the essential steps: I configured my Gigabyte S-series GA-MA790FX-DS5 motherboard BIOS to have PME Event set to enabled; this enables wake-on-LAN which … Continue reading

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Snow Leopard, uncrashed

Knox has been having a bunch of problems upgrading his Mac to Snow Leopard. After much digging today, he discovered in the system log that startd was complaining about having to throttle cupsd from too-frequent respawning due to recurring crashes. … Continue reading

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The Power of Now

One of my pursuits these days is the cultivation of mindfulness. Life is rich and helter-skelter. Only by living in each fleeting now, it seems, is there hope of appreciating a journey that is already accelerating to its eventual conclusion. … Continue reading

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Portland to Astoria Century

This weekend a friend invited us to ride a century from Portland to Astoria with a bunch of his pals. It was a fun ride through largely new-to-me territory. Not terribly hard, though tiring in that way that centuries tend … Continue reading

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Why Choose This Book?

Starting from Darwin and Turing, Read Montague’s Why Choose This Book? relates recent research on how minds make decisions. The critical element is a valuation mechanism that can assign weights to various alternatives, and do so cheaply. Why, indeed, does … Continue reading

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